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SUMMARY: Tavern Grade flooring will contain significant variations in wood coloration and character; however, such imperfections should still provide a serviceable floor. Tavern grade has the lowest average board length of all standard wood grades.DETAILED: Tavern grade flooring will admit a limited amount of unfilled and unfinished open characters including open knots, splits, or cracks. Severely mis-manufactured boards, shattered or rotten ends, pieces with less than ¼tongue, or other unsound defects of a similar nature are typically not permitted. Tavern grade pre-finished flooring will contain a limited amount of pieces with finish irregularities including, but not limited to: bubbles, finish skips or lines, severe streaks, stain/color variation, surface handling scratches, and grainy surface/debris. When assembled, Tavern grade flooring may exhibit gapping that exceeds 0.031”and end/side over-wood(e.g. height variation between adjacent boards) that exceeds 0.030”.

Answered on 11/10/2014 by Tech & Install

Q:

I live in a manufactured home and would like to have hardwood floors. Can I put hardwood on top of particle board? I don't know what is required for installing hardwood.

1st, The base sub-floor of these homes are prone to movement or future sagging.

2nd, The sub-floors are usually made of a Particle type board, a high quality board though not designed for a lasting nail-hold of traditional nail-down Hardwood floorings

The advantages of installing floating floors, such as engineered wood or laminates is that it’s not attached to the sub-floor. Therefore the new floor will not be affected by the sub-floor’s movement, and are less expensive to install by not having to remove the base floor.

However, a more traditional Hardwood nail-down installation can be accomplished if the Mobile home has a permanent, fixed foundation. In addition, for a lasting nail hold, any inferior sub-floorings should be removed or resurfaced using a minimum 5/8” plywood, 23/32” AdvanTech or 23/32” OSB (Oriented Strand Board) Particle board is only sufficient for floating floors.